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When Eric Williams wrote a book on the escape of two British officers from a prison camp in East Germany, it was just a matter of time before some movie producer gobbled it up. Fortunately a British outfit found it first, and produced "The Wooden Horse," a film so faithful it hurts...
...Mount St. James--isn't quite so sure. He warns of the dangers of overconfidence, and of the need to "play 'em one at a time." But even Anderson--a genuine M.D., by the way--must admit that the renacesent Purple squad, only two years ago a 1-9 outfit, is at least potent...
...Every day it was up at 5 a.m., calisthenics before breakfast and work between meals, except for a two-hour siesta after lunch. Meals for the whole day were cooked early in the morning, to keep government planes from spotting smoke. Man, those Huks had a pretty high-class outfit up there. Enough arms and medicines, acres of farms, plenty of bread, even carabaos. They had weddings and dances and pin-up girls. The leaders wore good clothes and their fingernails were manicured...
Corporal Baranowski was guilty enough, but the crime he should have been tried for, as the chaplain saw it, was love. Stationed in the Ukraine, the lonely corporal had become passionately fond of a young Russian widow, Liuba, innocently tipped her off on the moves his outfit made. Condemned to a penal company, he had given his guards the slip, been recaptured and sentenced to death...
...would be transferred to the government-owned National Iranian Oil Co. A new purchasing organization set up by the British would buy the oil from National Iranian, market it, divide the net profits 50-50 with the Iranians. The purchasing organization and National Iranian would jointly create a third outfit to handle the technical end-drilling, pumping, refining, loading. The Iranians would nominally be in charge of the third company; actually, the British would manage...